I set out just wanting to paint vaporwave. If you know vaporwave, you know exactly where I'm coming from here. (Great, now as I'm writing this I have to listen to Floral Shoppe). As is anything, it started as one thing, turned into a jumping off point, and is now its own thing. In this case it's a loveletter to an old sweetheart.

The ghost of a woman has on her forehead the compound of a cube with an octohedron, which might be one of my favorite shapes. I'm surprised to learn there's no name for this! Octo-hexahedron? Anyway, from the shape, from her forehead, from her mind is the sentence いつまでも炎を焼こうて下さい (itsumademo honoo wo yakoute kudasai), which is my best attempt at "may the flames of love burn forever," with Japanese being the de-facto language of vaporwave. In the foreground is a heart flower, inspired by the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, representing a heart that's been broken and mended. On one side of the ghost is a synthetic world, and on the other side is the organic. In the middleground are a Lego torso and... I don't know what it's called, but I call them Sorry nips. Lastly, in the distance is a beckoning light, glowing red. It has to be something trying to tell me something urgent, and I don't know what! Probably something like "get a job, Claire."